Asus/NCIX Competiton Entry - dejanh

[dejanh]

Nice cooling you've got there, How low can you go with that & does it hold the temp during long benchmarking periods (Prime small FTT, IntelBurn)?


Regarding your post on using 1.9 or 2.1v mem, I'm using 12Gb "old school" Diablo 2000 GTR at 1600 with 1.56v QPI, but it can clock 6Gb 2300Mhz no prob with 1.65v QPI & 2.1vDIMM although I haven't tested for stability

Hey, nice to see you around

Take a look at the screenshot below It is a short LinX run with my cooling but it holds up just as well under extended testing. LinX gets the temps the hottest though. This was done with 17C ambients and a source of fresh air for the fans. During my daily use the temps never exceed 56C on the hottest core with fans on silent. That's quite good for an i7 running at 4.2GHz

Now, a question re: memory. Did you clock the GTR sticks on the i7 to 2.3GHz? What timings did you use? Stability is not an issue really, just pure performance in MHz That seems very impressive indeed. I wonder if their new HCF0s clock the same when you juice them up a bit past 1.65V or if they fizzle like some other out there...HCF0s should do well with higher voltages. Did you get a chance to test these? Also, where did you buy your GTR sticks? I don't know any retailers near me that carry these...